DECRYPTION – Faced with recent media and political outcry, the Chinese social network is organizing its response. Announcement effects that do not go beyond the field of communication and which fail to decipher the problem posed by this application for our democracies.
On December 16, we told you in these pages how the Chinese social network TikTok censored its children while knowingly making ours stupid. This formula, as reported by our colleagues from Politico, questioned in higher places. A few weeks later, a senatorial group led by Claude Malhuret announced that it wanted to create a commission of inquiry into « the use of the TikTok social network, its use of data, its strategy of influence, propaganda and disinformation ».
Because, for the past few months, the platform has been showing increasingly aggressive media treatment and has raised increased mistrust from regulators and legislators. It even elicits statements from various heads of state. Sanctioned by a fine of 5 million euros at the beginning of January by the Cnil, TikTok is also under two investigations by the Irish authorities on possible transfers of data from European citizens to China and on the protection…
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